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South of Midnight creative director David Sears said in a recent MinnMax interview that he was grateful Microsoft funded the game, but “in hindsight it was unsustainable” and he “probably” would have turned off the money tap earlier if he had been the one approving it. He told people during development that “this could be terrible” because one day someone would close “the money tap” and “that’s going to have really traumatic results downstream.” This is exactly the Freedom Trap I laid out in July. Giving studios creative freedom while still staffing, budgeting, and scheduling niche projects like mainstream blockbusters, with no one willing to set boundaries or match scope to risk. Clip below is from that video.